Tuesday, August 13th was a warm day on the Boulevard, but the clouds
moved in to cool the Flaggers off a bit and many good conversations were
held with residents and visitors to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 9
Flaggers were in attendance and CBS 6 visited us on the sidewalk for
interviews regarding the I-95 Battle Flag.

A question apparently being raised in next week’s trial in Cairo of
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders facing criminal charges is this: Was
the Obama administration paying bribes as large as $850,000 a year to
the Morsi government that were distributed by top ministerial level
officials to Muslim Brotherhood leaders, with the direct involvement of
the U.S. Embassy in Cairo?

WND is in possession of an official document from inside the Morsi
government that lends credibility to a report published in Arabic by an
Egyptian newspaper in Cairo that lists the charges brought by the
current military-controlled government against Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood leaders.

As seen above, WND has obtained official records from the deposed
Morsi government in Egypt, with signatures, documenting monthly “gifts”
paid to Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt by the former prime minister
and foreign minister of Qatar, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani.

The document was seized from Egyptian government offices in Cairo when the Morsi government was deposed by the military July 3.

As translated by former PLO member and native Arabic-speaker Walid
Shoebat, the monthly “gifts” listed in the document amount to bribes
paid by the Morsi government to leading Muslim Brotherhood members in
Egypt, including an annual payment of $750,000 to $850,000 in U.S.
dollars.

While the move by residents in several Colorado counties to secede
from the state has been described as frustration over recent moves by
the legislature in Denver, a retired political scientist and author says
the move actually is a symptom of a much larger undercurrent of
frustration that Republicans are in a prime position to tap into in 2014
and beyond.

“What is happening in Colorado is a little bit different than what we
have seen elsewhere,” Charles Dunn a retired political scientist with
Regent University said. “What we’re seeing is a manifestation of the
frustration and distrust by the people in Weld County who are angry at
what their state government and leaders are doing and this has caused
them to be distrustful of them.”

Last year, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, was upheld to be constitutional as a tax. Though it’s been three years since Obamacare has been the law of the land, problems have arisen (we all knew they would), and costs have skyrocketed from their projections (we knew that too). As a result, some parts of Obamacare will be delayed by one year. However, it looks as if the Supreme Court may just get a second hearing on the unpopular, and in many of our opinions unconstitutional law.

How’s that? Well, when constructing the sweeping legislation, apparently lawmakers, specifically Democrats, made an error by allowing states to decide whether or not they would set up their own insurance exchange, which they would control. If a state chose not to set up an exchange, then the federal government would establish one. States establishing an insurance exchange under Obamacare would tax employers who did not provide insurance under the employer mandate. The money would be returned to employees to purchase insurance through the state’s insurance exchange.

The problem comes because more than two dozen states have chosen not to establish state insurance exchanges.

Barack Obama and the Democrats didn’t place a tax in the bill for states that opted out of the state insurance exchanges. Therefore, they cannot be taxed. So much for setting up federal exchanges in the states.

So what about all of that? How does it make the issue unconstitutional? In order to correct the glaring problem, Barack Obama bypassed Congress and had the Internal Revenue Service re-write the law. I know, you are shocked, right? Obama and the IRS, once again involved in criminal activity against the people of America. This is not a scandal, it’s criminal.

A well-organized coalition of pro-family and civic organizations in
Miami-Dade soundly defeated a measure that would have given transsexuals
access to public restrooms and locker rooms used by the opposite sex.

The Miami-Dade Commission gave initial approval in May to adding
“gender identity and expression” to the county’s anti-discrimination law
by an 11-1 vote but the measure stalled after intense lobbying by
opponents – led by the local Christian Family Coalition.

Bill sponsors withdrew it on August 14 because they lacked the votes to get it through committee.
The victory in liberal Miami-Dade “is really landmark,” said
Christian Family Coalition executive director Anthony Verdugo of the win
36 years after singer Anita Bryant led the successful repeal of
Miami-Dade County’s homosexual rights law.

“When we caught wind of it, we had three weeks to organize,” said
Verdugo. His team exhaustively researched the issue, developed a
communications strategy and filled a hearing room with nearly 300
opponents when the commission took testimony on July 8.

The
Radical Republicans greatly harmed the black man who had to live as a
neighbor to Southern white people. In 1930 author Robert Penn Warren
argued for “the general and fundamental restoration” of relations
between white and black, and that “Inter-racial conferences and the
devices of organized philanthropy, [are only palliatives] in comparison
with this major concern.” Mutual understanding and respect was needed
rather than external meddling.

“The
Reconstruction did little to remedy the Negro’s defects in preparation
[as a citizen]. Certainly, he discovered himself as a political power,
but he was also to discover that the fruits of his power were plucked by
someone else, by the friends who gave him big talk and big promises.
Sometimes he got an office out of it all and smoked big cigars in the
chair of a legislature.

The
political training which he received, however, was the worst that could
possibly been devised to help him; it was training in corruption,
oppression, and rancor.

When
the earth shook and the fool, or scoundrel, departed after his meat,
leaving his bankrupt promises, the Negro was to realize that he had paid
a heavy price for the legislative seat and cigar. He had been oppressed
for centuries, but the few years in which he was used as an instrument
of oppression solved nothing.

Instead,
they sadly mortgaged his best immediate capital; that capital was the
confidence of the Southern white man with whom he had to live. The
Civil War had much to show the Negro’s character at its best, but, so
short is human memory, the Reconstruction badly impaired the white man’s
respect and gratitude. The rehabilitation of the white man’s
confidence for the Negro is part of the Southern white man’s story since
1880.

Some
people in the North thought that the immediate franchise carried with
it a magic which would insure its success as a cure-all and fix-all for
the Negro’s fate. [A more] realistic view [was] that the hope and
safety of everyone concerned rested in the education of the Negro . . .

The
most prominent man in Negro education of the past [has said]: “I am
constantly trying to impress upon our students at Tuskegee – and on our
people throughout the country, as far as I can reach them with my voice –
that any man, regardless of color, will be recognized and rewarded in
just proportion as he learns to do something well – learns to do it
better than someone else – however humble the thing may be.”

The
most urgent need was to make the ordinary Negro into a competent
workman or artisan and a decent citizen. Give him whatever degree of
education was possible within the resources at hand, but above all give
him a vocation. This remains, it seems, the most urgent need.”

Dana Milbank’s recent op-ed in the Washington Post titled The Weakest Generation? is a telling, though myopic, view of Generation X.As
a good nationalist and proponent of state action, Milbank thinks that
sacrifice to a state led cause—war or social justice through
unconstitutional expansion of central power—defines the mettle of a
people. “When we were prepared to sacrifice for the country after the
9/11 attacks,” he writes, “President George W. Bush told us to go
shopping….The effects on our politics has been profound.

Without any
concept of actual combat or crisis, a new crop of leaders — Ted Cruz,
Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin — treats governing as a fight to the
death, with no possibility of a negotiated peace. Without a transcendent
social struggle calling us to seek justice as Americans, they
substitute factional causes — Repeal Obamacare! Taxed Enough Already! —
or manufactured crises over debt limits and government shutdowns.”It
appears that Milbank firmly believes that those who wish to avoid
bankruptcy and press liberty (neocons like Ryan excluded) are somehow
un-American.Only “combat and crisis” can forge good, honest calls for an expansion of government power.He is right about that.Nationalists on both the Left and Right never miss a chance to expand central authority.

Al Sharpton’s weighed in on the senseless killing of Australian baseball player Chris Lane. He said there’s no reason for conservatives to be up in arms over the slaying, because “the system worked.”

And besides, there’s nothing to protest since the killing obviously wasn’t racially motivated:

“That doesn’t stop my friends over at Fox and Donald Trump and others saying, ‘Why isn’t Al Sharpton protesting this?’ I protest when I’m called in and when there’s an injustice. The three were arrested, there was nothing to protest, the system worked there. And racial? Not only did the police not say it was racial, one of the three were [sic] white.”

Regarding the skin colors of the thugs, looking at the mug shots gives us a pretty even spectrum of color from dark to light. James Edwards was the darkest, Michael Jones was the lightest, and Chancey Luna was right in the middle. By now, we know that Chancey was certainly of mixed race, since his mom is white, and his dad is black. People are saying (like Al above) that Jones is a white guy. But when you look at his mug shot, he looks like he also is of mixed race. Not that it really makes that much of a difference. Just saying. And if Luna and Jones are both of mixed race, that means that both of them are as black as Obama.

Bestselling author and renown investigative reporter Jack Cashill
believes there are strong parallels between the Trayvon Martin case in
Florida and the Duncan, Okla., case where black teens are accused of
killing Australian baseball player Christopher Lane.

“The drugs, the racial animosity, the violence, the attachment to the
hip hop culture – if Trayvon was the son of Barack Obama, they were his
brothers,” Cashill commented to WND. “They were on the same track that
Travyon was.”

He was referencing Obama’s comment that he made in the Trayvon Martin
case, that pushed the conflict into the national political scene. Obama
said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

I was asked to prepare a talk on the topic of “Jeffersonian Liberty” forBrock’s October PATCON. I decided to publish ahead of the gathering.

Read and reflect at your leisure, as I may abstain from doing a formal talk. I don’t enjoy public speaking, but I do plan to be in Tarboro on Saturday.

Permission to republish is granted IF AND ONLY IF the References list is retained in its’ entirety. This paper is a novel presentation of thoughts assembled from various authors. There is very little original content, but it is absent traditional formal footnotes to the sources in the References list.

The welfare
state and rules ‘malum prohibitum’ chafe upon our life, liberty and
property. We seem to find easy agreement regarding things that offend
us.

The question
“What binds us together” has been more difficult to address. Prior to
the Spring PATCON, a small group of us met and failed to agree upon a
formal explanation for the purpose of an armed Muster.

That
discussion led to conversation about the absence of an agreed
description for a vision, a desired end-state that could be embraced by
all in the liberty movement.

The meeting
broke down over my proposal to adopt Jefferson’s’ definition of Rightful
Liberty as the goal, the compelling vision for Patriots.

“Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.I
do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the
tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the
individual.”~ Thomas Jefferson

Rightful
Liberty received more challenge than constructive debate. Objections
were raised: the definition of liberty has evolved over time; our
society is no longer a moral Christian people. While these observations
are valid, they are a distraction. We cannot enforce the definition of
a word any more than we can dictate religious doctrine to our
neighbors. We must look for a solution that can work within our current
circumstances.

We are
individuals engaged in an outreach program – ‘organizers’ in the Patriot
community. We are dealing with people who struggle to balance autonomy
and community. A very real antagonism exists between liberty and
authority.

Recently, a
question arose over whether to include or exclude a particular ‘group’
at the PATCON.

There was no clear criteria by which a decision could
be made. Both the attendees and organizers wish to exercise free choice
regarding associations.

Freedom, for a
man in nature, is action according to his will regardless of outcome or
consequence. Liberty is different. Liberty is action disciplined
within a social context.

In conducting
my research on Mr. Jefferson’s concept of liberty, I learned some things
that were unexpected. I reached some conclusions that are hard to
dismiss.

Situation:

Disunity
and lack of cohesion is a survival problem for the Patriot community.
Our isolationism is a natural consequence of “individualism”.
Collectivism and tyranny are our ‘common enemies’. Attempts to “restore
the Constitution” have failed to restore liberty. A compelling vision
for a desirable end-state is absent.

An individual
is a natural person, a human being, as opposed to a legal person (e.g. a
corporation). Fundamental human rights are implicitly granted only to
natural persons.

Prior to the
American Revolution, John Locke, the philosopher of individualism,
created “a passable explanation – perhaps one may call it a myth – to
account for the existence of individual rights” (Russell Kirk). “All
men are created equal” was a conclusion from postulating the existence
of ‘mental substance’, or soul, which accompanies the ‘material
substance’ of each human body from conception.

Rights attach
to the individual and are recognized as pre-political in character.
Locke’s’ prescription for human interaction derives from natures laws
and describes liberty in ‘negative’ or restrictive terms. This created
limits upon monarchial or democratic principles for the purpose of
protecting minorities – preventing tyranny of the majority.

“… each
man joins in society with others for the mutual protection of his life,
liberty and estates…” “The … chief end … of men uniting into common
wealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of
their property.”- Locke

Locke’s
philosophy was embraced in our Declaration of Independence. He
influenced the checks and balances in our Constitution. His concept of
unalienable rights led to a ‘charter of negative liberties’ which formed
the first ten Amendments – our Bill of Rights.

What should be
the real goal of our “restoration” effort? Should our effort be
defense of the Bill of Rights, restoration of the original intent behind
the Constitution, or reclamation of our Rightful Liberty as understood
in the Declaration of Independence?

Jeremy Bentham, an English contemporary of the American Revolution commented on law, stating: “Every law is an infraction of liberty”.

If we turn to
legislative action to restore liberty, how are we different from
“statists” and tyrants who coerce others to adopt their preferred
culture, norms and behaviors? People who resort to statutory law and
regulation are using force to manipulate other people for their own
purposes.

Task:

Accept the
facts of our current reality and ‘engineer’ a solution. Begin with the
individual as the fundamental unit of human value. Work to diminish the
power and control of the collective and the tyrant. Abandon
legislative action as a means to guarantee liberty, as legal structure
is only a mechanism to control others. Establish conditions that
encourage a desired end-state.

“Force and conquest, in England as elsewhere, constituted the actual cement of society …” - Russell Kirk, intro to Lockes’ 2nd Treatise on Civil Government

At the
conclusion of the American Revolution, the “cement” of the English
monarchy had been eliminated and the “bricks”, the former Colonists,
embraced a philosophy of individual sovereignty within the governance of
their 13 independent Republics.

But if every human is an independent and sovereign entity, to what or whom do we submit?

And WHY ?

In the United
States as in England, the common law derived its legitimacy from
obedience to a sovereign. But in the States the people were sovereign.
They consented rather than submitted to the common law. Courts
transformed from being instruments of a single, distant, authoritative
voice, into institutions belonging to the people, and operating by their
consent.

Americans,
more than the English, understood the common law to be the product of
natural law and reason. In the hands of the people it was no threat to
liberty.(Constitutional Rights in Common Law World – Tvrdy)

James Madison,
however, (architect of the Constitution) believed that liberty required
more than the mere absence of coercive authority. His vision of
Liberty as a personal, social, and political ideal was dependent upon
the existence of certain affirmative social and political conditions.
For Madison, freedom required a social balance between diverse, often
competing, social interests. (Federalist Papers 10 and 51)

Positive
liberty was a form of collective regulation for a social and political
world. The Madisonian concept of democracy was a ‘popular government’
in support of ‘popular sovereignty’, but was fundamentally in opposition
to individualism. The distribution of power across groups and citizens
was envisioned to check the influence of minority factions.

Consequently the rights of the “smallest minority”, the individual, were
at risk.

The
Constitution was designed to not operate directly upon individual
persons. Most ratifying conventions hoped the “more perfect union”
would be a minimal structure, to facilitate Jefferson’s’ procedural and
instrumental legislation among the several States.

The first ten
Articles of Amendment to the Constitution attempted to guarantee that
natural rights of individuals would not be violated by the newly created
general government. The language in the preamble to the Bill of Rights
made this very clear:

“THE
Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their
adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent
misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and
restrictive clauses should be added: …”

Liberty was
doomed by the time the Convention of 1787 had concluded. This statement
may seem to conflict with the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791,
but in fact the BoR was an attempt to breathe liberty back into the
corpse of a confederation subsumed by the new national government.

The initial
influence of the new “general government” was small, however, and at the
local level the people lived their lives under common law and enjoyed
their “rightful liberty”.

Jefferson
dismissed the “overarching social interest” expressed by Madison,
stating “The rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the
rights of individuals.” From Jefferson’s’ perspective the Constitution
made no provision against the destruction of liberty by factions.

What might the
product of the convention of 1787 have looked like if Jefferson had not
been exiled to France? What do we need to live more like Jefferson?

Action:

Articulate a
vision of liberty for free minds and free markets. Embrace individual
sovereignty and act in a consistent manner. Reject all collectivism and
repel coercion from any source. Withdraw consent from legislative
jurisdiction. Seek voluntary collaboration with other free men.

At the time of
Jefferson, common law was the form in which Natural law was expressed
and presented in the courts. It was the ‘operational’ basis of John
Locke’s’ formal and abstract statements of political philosophy.

Jefferson
integrated a Lockean description of negative rights into his
understanding of common law and social interaction. He grouped rights
into two categories: natural and unalienable – inherent in man, derived
from natures’ laws; and procedural or instrumental –to preserve free
government, issuing from affirmative law. An example of the first is
freedom of religion; an example of the second is freedom of the press.

“Affirmative”
legislation evolved to become a mechanism to provide benefits to those
who consented to participate in society. Legislative law however should
never violate natural law. Any positive law that violates natural law
is a void law, regardless of the excuses or arguments made for its’
need. [Note]

An
unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in
reality no law, but is wholly void and ineffective for any purpose. No
one Is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to
enforce it. (16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256)

The ‘bad seed’
of affirmative legislation had been planted. A few generations after
the introduction of positive liberty came the Progressive idea that
rights did not need to be regarded as pre-political checks on democratic
process. Rights could be generated by affirmative legislation.

After 200
years of progressive, affirmative legislation, we live in a world of
entitlements where the government expects you to believe that individual
and unalienable human rights are subject to legislative enactment.
Once the transfer from faith in God to reliance on the State had been
accomplished, natural rights are no longer relevant.

The
contemporary result is that men are now forced to pay for “social
benefits’ (e.g. Affordable Health Care Tax). We are bound in
involuntary servitude, even though such action is expressly forbidden by
the Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution. [Note]

The decision
whereby Chief Justice John Roberts declared Obamacare a “tax”, and
therefore ‘constitutional’, puzzled me greatly until I discovered a
passage in an obscure Senate publication from 1933 (Contracts Payable in
Gold, top of pg 13):

“The
ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called
“ownership” is only by virtue of Government, i.e. law, amounting to
mere user; and use must be in accordance with law, and subordinate to
the necessities of the State.”

This short
passage exposes the perverse logic of how governments extract rent
called “property tax” from people who hold no mortgages. And by
extension, the tax called “Obamacare” is justified as a form of rent for
the continued use of our physical persons – a property ultimately owned
and operated by the State, not ourselves.

I am not
sufficiently knowledgeable to provide advice regarding how to withdraw
consent and challenge legislative jurisdiction. But I am persuaded from
my research that there are no legislative bodies in America that have
any authority to make laws, rules, or regulations that can be forced
upon any free individual – absent his consent.

Any tacit
consent that violates the rights of individuals is the result of fraud
and deception. [Note] This is the point of departure from which we must
reclaim liberty

Result:

Recover Rightful Liberty through restoration of common law.

The common law
is understood through “maxims of law”. These are foundational
principles which cannot be lawfully violated. They are statements
grounded in logic, reason, common sense, and truth. Lists of maxims are
published and available. A few examples will suffice here: [Note]

A man cannot give any thing, power or authority he does not have

No one has the right to force an obligation on another with impunity

The people, as individuals, in America are sovereign

In America the government is the servant of the sovereign people

Truth is paramount and the objective of the rules of law

Might does not make right

Thou shall not steal

Thou shall not bear false witness

A person is innocent until proven guilty

All presumptions of law are rebuttable

Written law cannot lawfully or morally violate rights of a free man

Force, perjury, or subornation of perjury, voids all

The third
Maxim has been a source of much debate over the years. Is sovereignty
an attribute of an individual, the people as a body politic, a State as a
member of the Union, or the general government?

Article IV,
section 4 of the Constitution states: “The United States shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall
protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the
Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be
convened) against domestic Violence.”

A Republic is a
government in which supreme power is held by citizens entitled to vote
and is exercised by elected officers and representatives governing
according to law.

Our guarantee
of a Republican form of government does not ascribe sovereignty to the
States. Sovereignty was not delegated to the general government in the
limited grant of powers enumerated in Article 1 Section 8. The supreme
power, sovereignty, is retained by the people to be exercised through
delegation to officers.

A citizen, as
an instance of ‘the people’, has placed himself in the service and
legislative jurisdiction of a government in return for protections and
benefits. This involves an explicit or implicit consent which
allows for encroachment or infringement upon rights.

Ultimately all
powers derive from the sovereignty of the individual who may at any
time withdraw consent and resume the direct enjoyment of all rights and
prerogatives.

As a
consequence of the first Maxim, a man at liberty under common law should
be able to directly exercise the same powers that he delegates to
government. No officer in our current governments would acknowledge
this possibility or tolerate the act.

At liberty
under common law, with a strict adherence to natural law, an individual
may do with his actions, possessions, and persons, anything he may see
fit, without the consent or approval of any other individual,
government, or human power. [Note]

The laws of
nature only constrain him insofar as he may not create damage, violate
the liberty or possessions of other, or create an obvious danger. This
is known as living within the common law of the land. [Note]

DHS and local
law enforcement have labeled men at liberty “sovereign citizens” and
claim they are a threat to peace and order – enemies of the state. The
label is an oxymoron as a citizen has ceded sovereignty, and a sovereign
is not bound by the obligations of citizenship.

LEO warns of
anarchy and attempts to scare people from seeking and achieving Rightful
Liberty.

People must be educated to understand that anarchy does not
happen because people violate statutory or positive law – regulation and
malum prohibitum. Anarchy only happens when people violate natural
law. [Note]

Logic dictates
that when the maxims of law are followed, truth, justice and fairness
prevail in a high percentage of cases. It is virtually impossible to
manipulate maxims of law in order to create fraud or injustice in the
way an attorney can manipulate statute and regulation to cause confusion
and create injustice. [Note]

So let us reflect on the problems facing our Patriot community.

What is the
primary difference today between the ‘community organizers’ who are
collectivists and our efforts as individualists to organize the Patriot
community? Collectivists embrace legislative force to achieve their
“ends”; individualists rely upon voluntary cooperation.

Voluntarism
among individuals may result in a loss of certain liberties
(sovereignty), but voluntarism is elective and reversible. The
Constitution was ratified by voluntary actions of representatives of
nine States and, at the time, none believed their decision was
irrevocable.

Can patriots
learn from community organizers to achieve our goals without intrusion
upon rightful liberty? Any contemporary statist, whether they call
themselves Republican, conservative or constitutionalist, who endorses
the use of force by the state to deliver goods and services or otherwise
achieve social / political / financial outcomes, is using collective
power to enslave individuals.

Over the course of the 19th and 20th
centuries, government and the courts have engaged in silent judicial
encroachment. They presume that all citizens have submitted their
private lives, affairs, and property to the domination of government.
By this presumption of law men are obligated to abide by, and be
obedient to, legislation. We have been
conditioned since birth to accept and consent to some form of man made
authority. Our founding fathers never dreamed that the people of today
would accept feudalism without concern. [Note]

The question
each of you should be asking yourself at this moment is: “Given the
American proposition that sovereignty resides in the people, as
individuals, from where did any legislature acquire the supreme right to
make laws that can force obligations and violate the rights of private
people?” [Note]

The act of withdrawing consent removes the obligation to submit to legislative authority.Withdrawal of
consent restores all that was compromised or aliened by the former
social compact, parts of which were clearly implemented by fraud.

In so doing,
men become morally free to resist all forms of coercion with retaliatory
force – in all domains of life. To the extent of one’s courage, any
man may once again enjoy rightful liberty.

“Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”~ Thomas Jefferson

The law that
is often “but the tyrant’s will” is that affirmative legislation and
regulation enacted to wrest control our lives, liberties and estates and
fix them under legislative jurisdiction.

A return to
common law is a necessary prerequisite to restore Rightful Liberty, the
object and desired end-state of all free men.

Our task is
to learn and practice common law among ourselves, and in defense of
encroachments by collectivists and their presumption of law.

A focus on
common law and Rightful Liberty will direct our attention toward what we
value, and minimize “division” within the Patriot Movement.

I may continue
to pay tribute /taxes to the governments that claim jurisdiction over
me – but I do so at present under protest and duress.

I have begun to withdraw my consent …

Hans Mentha

on a quest to live in Rightful Liberty in the NC woods

24 August 2013

Quotes in closing:“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” – Thomas B. Reed

“Anarchy does not happen because people violate written or positive law. Anarchy only happens when people violate natural law.”– Robert Hart

“I am
free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I
tolerate them;if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free
because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I
do.” - Robert Heinlein

[Note] I have used numerous sentences from this book, and paraphrased others, as their inclusion suited the theme of this paper. I believe my excerpts are legitimate under “fair use” and create no damage in common law to the intellectual property or the economic well being of the author. Full credit is given and the absence of traditional detailed footnotes should not be construed as intent to plagiarize. The commercial link below the book title is a good faith gesture to strengthen the economic interests of the author.

In
a 2013 fund-raising letter, Allen West wrote that "Obama's completely
incoherent foreign policy is putting our strongest allies in grave
danger. His extreme ambivalence is simply unacceptable."But is it really incoherent? Obama's mentors
have long taught him to despise America. In fact, these "mentors and
allies were marked by hatred of the United States," and Obama was
"marinated" in a "visceral hostility to the West" via the influence of
Frank Marshall Davis, who had a long history of anti-American, anti-white beliefs. Other mentors include Rashid Khalidi and the late Edward Said, spokesmen for Palestinian terrorists. That Christians in the Middle East as well as Israel,
the Jewish homeland, should be put at grave risk is an idea that has
swirled in this president's mind for a very long time. Thomas Sowell
maintains that "[w]hat many regard as a failure of Obama's foreign
policy, especially in the Middle East, may well be one of his biggest
successes."Obama's
actions are creating an end result where the United States no longer
plays a large role internationally. In July 2011, Douglas J. Feith and
Seth Cropsey cogently explained
that calling Obama's actions in Libya "vacillating and aimless" misses
an important point: that "Barack Obama has declared that he wants to
transform America's role in world affairs." Thus, under Obama, there
will be less focus "on the American people's particular interests, and
less concern about preserving U.S. freedom of action." The Obama
Doctrine is about weakening America's place and function in the world.

1957. Robert and Norma Norton of Houston, Texas, with their family,
illustrating life before and after having the house air-conditioned.
Includes photos of the family at a drive-in restaurant having cool air
piped into their car” — a Cadillac sedan that already has air
conditioning.

Statistics seem to point out that blacks have been targeting whites since the 1960s.

The ongoing racial tension is being exacerbated by a media which refuses to truthfully and faithfully report details about crimes occurring between and/or against the races. The race war of blacks on whites is being denied. Remembering just how much detail was foisted upon us (as well as dutifully ignored) during the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman tragedy and seeing how often the media ignores or downplays the crimes by blacks against whites is enough to make a sensible and intelligent person question the media’s motives. Of course, those on the left question nothing except why people like me are bringing it up in the first place.

Blacks-Beating-WhitesSome years ago, an Australian by the name of Paul Sheehan wrote an article called “The Race War of Black Against White” and it appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald (1995). Mr. Sheehan’s opening statement was, “The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War. It determined the result of last year’s congressional election.”

Exactly which war is he referring to here? “No matter how crime figures are massaged by those who want to acknowledge or dispute the existence of a Dirty War, there is nothing ambiguous about what the official statistics portray: for the past 30 years a large segment of black America has waged a war of violent retribution against white America.”

The two suspects are African American. Yet, Spokane Police Chief Frank
Straub said it was not racially motivated. He stated that the two suspects were
looking to commit a robbery on Wednesday night........instead the suspects beat Belton with a flashlight outside of
the Eagles Ice-A-Rena.

Yeah, right, you're going to rob an 88 year old man, but need to beat him to death with a flashlight.

A memorial outside the Eagles Lodge in North Spokane grew Friday for the
World War II veteran who was beaten to death Wednesday night.

Police transferred one of the suspect’s accused of killing a World War II veteran on Friday.

KREM 2 News received the first look at Demetrius Glenn, 16, in police
custody as he was transferred from a juvenile detention facility to the
main Spokane County Jail campus. Authorities said Glenn will be charged
as an adult and booked at the main campus. He will later be transferred
back to the juvenile detention facility for the weekend.

We are working on breaking down NC into regions to be serviced by a
preppers’ barter network. The concept will be to arrange face to face
meetings between members of different prepper groups in each region so
the beginnings of a level of trust between groups can be reached and
lines of

communication and a barter network established well before a
collapse should, if, when it comes.
Meetings have already begun and are being spread to different areas.
Far western NC has already had a meet up and one was held this past
weekend in the Winston-Salem area and two more regions have been set up
covering Buncombe County east to approximately I-77 and another for I-77
east with the eastern boundary to be determined.

The famously left-leaning 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has
affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the federal government over
its gun restrictions, ruling the plaintiffs failed to state a claim.

The expected decision now clears the way for a battle that could end
up in the U.S. Supreme Court over state sovereignty, alleged regulatory
overreach, the right to self-defense and even the compact under which
Montana became a state.

“This was about as good of a ruling as we could have expected from
the Ninth Circuit. We must get to the U.S. Supreme Court to accomplish
our goal of overturning 70 years of flawed Supreme Court rulings on the
Interstate Commerce Clause,” said Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

Few people doubt that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hopes to become
president in 2016. Unfortunately for him, he may have just signed away
any chance of that.

On Monday, Christie signed A3371, a draconian piece of legislation
that bars licensed therapists from helping children overcome unwanted
same-sex attractions, behavior or identity. This law bans help for
minors even when – as is so often the case – those same-sex attractions
arise from childhood sexual abuse by the likes of a Jerry Sandusky.

This law will prohibit minors and their parents from receiving
counseling they desire and will force counselors to violate ethical
codes because they will not be able to help clients reach their own
counseling goals. This law would enslave children – whether abused or
not – to a subjectively determined sexual identity that they reject.

The connection between homosexual abuse and “gay identity” is
undeniable. Consider this:

Researchers from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that homosexual men are “at
least three times more likely to report CSA (childhood sexual abuse)”
than heterosexual men.

This weekend in Washington, DC, thousands will march to recognize the 50th
anniversary of the March on Washington. Just prior to that historic
celebration, President Obama touched on the issue of race today at a town hall meeting
in New York at Binghamton University. Responding to a question about
educational opportunities for minorities, Obama acknowledged the
progress America has made in race since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
momentous 'I Have a Dream' speech on August 28, 1963.

"Obviously we've made enormous strides -- I'm a testament to it,
you're a testament to it, the diversity of this room and the students
who are here is a testimony to it."

This week, like the previous weeks and just as it
will be in future weeks, liberals and socialists just keep raising the
bar on their insipid activities.

This week, Bradley Manning got busted down to
private before he was sentenced to 35 years in a military lock up and
now, he wants his clusters removed.

That’s right…Bradley now wants to be CHELSEA and
begin hormone treatments…PRESUMABLY at TAX PAYER EXPENSE because, I
suppose, having a little cloud of glitter behind you every time you fart
just isn’t a good thing when you’re cellmate’s name is HANK.

The government has awarded a $78 THOUSAND DOLLAR
grant to a bunch of HALF BAKED researchers to find out if GLOBAL WARMING
caused the downfall of the MAYAN civilization.

Exhibit A) MAYAN…SUV’s.

And…The without A=CLU(E)…Which uttered not a single
word of displeasure when a U.S. District Court Judge threw out
OKLAHOMA’S BAN ON SHARIA LAW…Now is DEMANDING a STATUE of the 10
COMMANDMENTS be REMOVED from the lawn of the OKLAHOMA CAPITOL!!!

Tell me again how socialists don’t want all notions
of our JUDEO/CHRISTIAN values BANISHED to be replaced by the IDEOLOGY
of ISLAM!!!!!

“It must be a mistake,” he said, when the loan officer told him that
someone had placed liens totaling more than $25 million on his house and
on other properties he owned.

But as Sheriff Stanek soon learned, the liens, legal claims on property
to secure the payment of a debt, were just the earliest salvos in a war
of paper, waged by a couple who had lost their home to foreclosure in
2009 — a tactic that, with the spread of an anti-government ideology
known as the “sovereign citizen” movement, is being employed more
frequently as a way to retaliate against perceived injustices.

As many long term reader or members of my survival course know, I like to talk about important but some maybe call “not so spectacular” part of survival that is not so much fun like for example talking about latest guns and gadgets.

Today I want to talk about dignity and what it means in survival scenario. Before I talk from own experience, read the extract below from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin who describes what happened after his unit freed the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during second world war.

At the moment of his writing every day hundreds of people still died and it was place of pure horror.

Dr. David A Yeagley: Libertarian, Confederate, writer, composer and fighter.

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. Deuteronomy 32:39

This past spring (2013) I was diagnosed as having “low-grade, extra-nodal lymphoma.” In July, I was also diagnosed with mesothelioma. Two kinds of cancer, in the lungs. I had lung surgery on my left lung in July. I am presently on chemotherapy.

Most of my friends know that I have had cancer all my life, since I was eleven years old.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.